Comment by HWR_14
3 years ago
> because you're comparing all of New York State including housing in Buffalo etc with the 20 arrondissements of central Paris.
But isn't the entire Tokyo Metropolis under an hour by mass transit? That's a far cry from Buffalo. Like, Buffalo cannot commute to NYC by anything other than private aircraft.
Technically Tokyo Metropolis includes some islands several hours by plane south of Tokyo, including Iwo Jima of WW2 fame. Their combined population is only a rounding error compared to the mainland though.
If you replace "Buffalo" with "an hour out of NYC" his point still stands.
Except that housing an hour out of NYC seems to be more expensive than the housing the article talks about.
New Jersey and Long Island are not more expensive than what the article talks about.
I don't know - an hour out of Penn Station takes you as far as places like Wyandanch on Long Island with the LIRR, or Stamford, CT with the MNR.
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Technically NYC commuter rail goes out about 1.5hrs.